FIRST SWALLOWS
They danced so wildly...
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I have a lot of impressions, I’ll share them a little
later, when I come to my senses. Well, in general
the spectacle was quite grandiose. It is necessary
I have to give credit to the organizers
work in critical conditions: MosEnergo
The school's electricity was cut off. Despite
to this, they found a way out and Fun
Thor took place!
Everything went quite smoothly and without any problems.
doc. The only thing I would like to say is
I mean, when announcing the winners it would be necessary to...
In addition to the authors, it was also possible to announce the work number
you, under which she showed herself. Since
under Compo, authors were not announced, but names
give up the numbers, it’s difficult for those present in the hall
was to judge whether their hopes were justified and
did their opinion coincide with the opinion of the majority?
va... And so, in general, everything is C00l...
I would especially like to mention Music compo. Respected
dear Composers, don’t hit too hard at Ra-
ve, Acid... etc. Well, it doesn't sound like
Spectrum, it’s better to write the good old mu-
language, don’t chase fashion. I can't say
I mean, what in generalnothing interesting from
there was no music. But, judging by the people, this
It's hard to say. Everyone did what they wanted
bodies, exchanged impressions, slept,
read newspapers, etc. So, about the lens-
It’s difficult for me to say in this nomination -
but... Two people, one might say, just
saved Music compo, every now and then launching into
dance, which made everyone present
will perk up and watch with great interest
behind what is happening. By the way, one of the tan-
those who have lived have a lot to learn. ;))) I don’t
I know what group they are from, but I think it’s worth it
thank them. For anyone interested, I'll
I carry out the numbers of those compositions to which
they danced so wildly (I think after listening
them, you will have the same desire): 12,
19, - there was no stopping them anymore -
28, 29, 30. There were 39 compositions in total, 3 of
which for some reason were skipped.
This is what I wanted to note at this moment:
ment. I hope this becomes a tradition. Everyone
Warm greetings from Moscow! Spectrum rules
forever!..
Regards,
08/22/98 Aleksey Andreev
Not just diplomas...
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Honestly, I did not expect this... This
it was cool! My objective opinion: spec-
rumists are the most decent and cool people
in the world!
The winners of the subject received not only diplomas
us, but also real money! ZX - RuleZZ!
Regards,
08/22/98 Alexey Ivanov
Thanks everyone! The impressions are amazing (even
after cleaning the hall today).
Regards,
08/23/98 Alexey Ivanov
At least with one eye...
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It's great that everything is so cool! How SSN everything
painted. I should take a look next time
at least with one eye...
08.23.98 Warm greetings, Slava!
SKETCH
How Proxima rode FunTop
special edition
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For a trip to the FunTop-98 Festival group
Proxima has been preparing for a long time - from the moment
when we saw the first info-shk. In the meantime,
until August 22, we saved money (collected
bottles, swept the streets and took out garbage -
new containers ;-)))
But now the long-awaited 21st has arrived.
lo. From the very morning through my hause began
people walk. In the evening there is some traffic
stopped, Viky Monster taxied in,
Uncle Sam and Sergius. Together they tore me away
from interplanetary battles in Elite 3, friends re-
decided to pass the time playing a logic game
(with two difficulty levels! ;-) - Ugolki.
The time for our departure was inexorably approaching.
board :'-) We started to persuade Viky
Monstercome with us, but Vitka has ours-
there was a pretty good reason to avoid
trips ;-) Next time he has this from-
the saying won't work...
On the way to the bus station we met -
There were two pretty girls. Sergius is not
missed the moment and immediately invited them
come with us. The girls politely refused
broke up, after which Sam, probably from over-
lived disappointment, urgently needed
thickets of bushes... Remaining time until
departure of the bus we were busy
that they tore the green re- from poor Sam
peynik ;-)
It was time to leave, we took our
rulez places, and then the braking began
The first one to brake was an elderly man.
the one who asked several times where
this bus is coming, although it was the only one
nom at the bus station and also at the front
on the glass there was a sign "Kovrov-Mos-
kva" :-) The second person to brake was also a man,
but somewhat younger. He squeezed into the car
beads with a huge suitcase, which caused op-
equal dissatisfaction of the driver. The thing itself
yes he managed to place it somewhere
near you, but after the bus
moved off, he again brazenly
put him in the aisle :[
Except for the overturned truck and
missed stop in Vladimir according to
nothing interesting happened on the horn of Moscow
mooseThere was only one stop in Pokrov,
where Sam immediately saw the departing car
beads from Chelyabinsk and I made an assumption
It is believed that Clevers Group is traveling in it (they are
launch X-FILES magazine). Later Sergius with
Sam saved 1 rub. on a paid tu-
fly, risking being fined 10.
We dozed the rest of the way. Despite
braking described above, we arrived in
record time - 4 hours 35 minutes.
Since there is free time before opening
We had plenty of FunTop, we re-
wanted to see some sights -
representatives of the capital who had the courage to
walk nearby. In particular, we visited
tili Staroarbatskaya street, which at
On closer inspection there was more
similar to a boulevard than it actually is
is in reality. These mornings
There was no one there for several hours, except
a couple of homeless people and several apparently homeless people
dogs wandering around looking for something
or someone to grab a bite to eat. Here and with us
looking at these poor creatures, he made himself known
know the worm we share
effortlessly threw sandwiches, providing
heavily stocked at home and taken
Of course, with you.
We liked Arbat, even if deserted
empty, empty and lonely. But the time has come
rush to find a place for the party
Sinclairists. The city woke up after the stormgood night (after all, autumn is coming soon, for some
school :-) By 8 o'clock we found ourselves around
school 91.In front of the entrance to the courtyard there is already a party
There were a dozen FunTop participants. We humbly
joined their ranks. Not even five minutes have passed
chickpeas, and we started making new acquaintances
va, in particular in the person of the representative of St.
St. Petersburg company "WELCOM CORPORATION"
Evgenia Budera.
Around nine o'clock everyone rushed together
into the school yard, they began to pull themselves there
the rest of the Sinclairists arrived later.
It should be mentioned that the delegation from
city of Kovrov turned out to be the largest
shoy - 11 people.
Somewhere after 9 o'clock, when everything is already
We had time to chat and take photos,
everyone was allowed into the school building. On the stairs
between the 4th and 5th floors began to accumulate -
Xia people - registration of participants was underway and
guests.
After registering and taking forms for
voting and personal cards, we went to
a medium-sized assembly hall filled with
chairs. They also stood near the windows.
There were five monitors in total, which were quite
enough. Three monitors stood in front of the first
nearby - one in the center and two closer to the windows.
One b/w monitor was intended for the needs
the organizers themselves, and therefore stood lowerothers. Well, the last monitor was delivered -
linen approximately in the center of the hall - for the rear
rows. Much to our chagrin, we found out
It was stated that business cards would not be issued. This
greatly complicated the process of recognizing signs
personalities given to us by correspondence. Although, our
There were also such resourceful people who at home
We made these cards for ourselves in advance.
We decided to settle closer to the so-called
to the podium and sat down in the second row. Pos-
it turned out that there were guys sitting in front of us
from CPU, and in the third row are the guys from
Rage Creative Group, from Belarus.
First, as always, we scrolled through several
to the demo and after a short wait -
The festival itself began.
At the very beginning with a short informal
The message was given by Alex. He told us
that at this time in the school itself there is a ca-
some other important event and try
strength to be more restrained in emotions and not violate
destroy public order.
Next came Wlodek Black himself, who
ry, in fact, opened (solemnly)
International Festival
Computer Art FunTop-98
But then Wlodek surprised everyone with the following message:
pity: the electricity was cut off at school
debts (“that’s a bummer” - probablythink-
everything), but immediately calmed him down: everything was equipped
connection managed to be connected (privately
com) to the neighboring house, for which they - a huge
thanks (not free, of course :-)
After this, the floor was passed to the President
Welcome Corp. - Evgeny Buder.
There was some kind of video on the monitors.
a face with a painfully familiar plot. "Pisyuk
dragged," many thought and were not
are right. It turns out that this is the company "Peters"
brought her new computer to the presentation
ter - Sprinter with 4 megas, screw and
other bells and whistles. Horrible! The video lasted:
took 4 minutes and took approximately 150 MV.
Naturally, after such a grandiose event
contacted a representative of the Peters company and began
people with voice recorders burst in and began to ask
ask a wide variety of questions. With honor
Having answered all the questions, Peter-sy once again
scrolled through part of the already shown video. K
Let me just say that the prices have been prepared in advance.
Loyal to the company, they didn’t take it so well. On the edge
at least, they themselves did not advertise it very much
these are the same prices.
Here it was the turn of Captain NE-
MO. He talked about his computer KAU-
-1024 and showed the motherboard. Whatever
strange, but there were practically no questions.
In conclusion, NEMO reported that Slava Med-
Nonogov couldn’t come and tells everyone
ardent greetings. After these words, Captain
got ita large stack of various pri-
owls, from which after a few seconds
not a trace remains. In this pile was also that
What a very interesting price list in A5 format,
The contents of which I quote verbatim:
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Forthcoming
new game for Spectrum
"Black Raven - 2"
The game will be a continuation of real-
-time strategy "Black Raven". Action
is transported two thousand years into the future, to
a future where people and kungs will again face
it will come together in an unequal battle for a fair
vost.
Get ready for the release of the full version!
Always yours, Vyacheslav Mednonogov
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All other price space was
filled with gorgeous pictures.
Then various Sinclairists spoke,
presenting its new developments in the field
software, both system,
so andgaming
In general, there was a presence at the festival
a lot of different people: strangers, acquaintances and
not really. PC people spotted on FunTop
there weren’t, but there were representatives of the platform
AMIGA (how could it be otherwise? :-) In particular,
the Amizhniks sitting nearby from time to time
they told me something like "y
AMIGA is better for me." Well, their favorite
Everyone has known the phrase for a long time - “sux 'n' must
die".
But now the time has come for the first nomination.
It turned out to be GFX compo. The pictures were very
we were diverse and there were a great many of them
gesture. While displaying pictures, organize
congestion made an announcement to those who brought
pictures with myself, but did not have time to register
rotate them. And they were found! Under the very co-
After viewing, two more pictures appeared.
But, as I understand it, in the final collection
More pictures included. When voting
it was necessary to choose 3 pictures from 69-
-ti. Much to our surprise, the prize money
Not the best pictures took places. And
this is strange. But he was even more surprised
fact that there were several on compo
pictures by the same authors!
The next compo turned out to be CHK-Intro.It was
Not very many works were presented - 14;
just like a demo. Worksturned out to be
-truly the most diverse (at least-
At least, it seemed so the first time).
There were also quite memorable works,
there were works with quite unexpected humor
rum, and there were also just Cheka-Intro :-) Personally
we didn’t like the fact that the authors of some
ry intro did not bother themselves with unnecessary
work. After all, it is enough to take only some
the second part from my demo - here's 4K-
-Intro. In fact, the prizes were earned by
the people who received them are not the same ones who live.
After viewing the graphics for quite a long time,
fics and CHK-Intro took a break. Some
some comrades immediately went to smoke in response
designated place for this activity, others
left the hall just to chat, well
Still others remained in place altogether. Especially
They weren’t allowed to run far, because “it was time-
I'm money," especially considering that
electricity was “pumped” from a neighboring house.
Of course, they didn’t start running after everyone, but simply
then they warned about the imminent start of the next
compo.
But now it's time for music.Total
there were 39 registered works, of which
which we chose the best. You say
that it's not that much? Judge for yourself
39*3 minutes equals about 2 hours. And
all these 2 hours it was necessary to carefully serve
to wander, andthen choose the best ones! Yes-ah...
The work here was also quite different,
but some of them were frankly annoying.
At first everything was quite calm. But
here came some killer rave muzaks,
under which, without hesitation, they rushed
several guys dance. And so it was unbearable
how many times... The most unpleasant thing was
that this noise woke up Uncle Sam,
until that moment, sleeping peacefully on a chair ;-)
After some time, part of the hall was again
buzzed earnestly, clapping her hands and whistling.
It turned out that this music came from the Moscow
Kovsky musicians. The result could have been
predict with probability equal to 1:1st
place was taken by Ilya Abrosimov - EA-Soft/Anta-
res.
At the end of the compo, people are tired, but still
the freemen were thrown into the corridor, although again,
some remained in their places.
in my corridor they have already hung several glued
sheets of paper interconnected - if you have
marker, and thicker, leave a memory of yourself.
It was also possible to purchase a licensed
Software from Welcome and T-shirts with a cute
FunTop symbols. I don’t know what kind of paint-
we made these inscriptions, but already in Kov-
first from Mongol I learned that the inscriptions were
they fight with almost a wet finger (and it’s worth
such “pleasure” was first 30, and later
or 25 rubles).Opened a trade in used books
former Sinclairist, now a happy
AMIGA holder. It was also possible to purchase
These licensed copies of Adventu magazines
rer" #8, "Deja Vu" #5, "Spectrum Expert"
#2, "Voyager" #1 and others. Sold and
branded versions of games: Monstarland, Mirror,
UFO-2, etc. Besides all this, people just
They gave freeware soft on used floppy disks.
But the break ended and the
demo compo. By this time I noticed that
large row of empty beer bottles
"Baltika", and some spektrumists with
the happy faces were not with empty bottles,
kami in hands. Maybe I'm wrong, but...
it seemed that they were mostly Moscow-
those Sinclairists. And here they launched the first ones
Demushki. In general, as on Enlight, in
some demos have the same themes or the same
mi effects. But then came the demos from MegaCode
and Digital Reality. The hall literally exploded
applause and shouts. As it turned out
later, they shouted louder for Exploder's demo
:-) The demos themselves were very diverse
and the audience reacted to them differently. For example
Mer, the phrase "vodka+beer=speccy rulez" was
met with laughter. But, for example, a video
video (which, by the way, was first filmed
on a video camera, then dragged it to the PC,
and then - to our beloved Speccy) published
which she accepted with almost the same roar,as well as prize demos. The fact of the matter is that
the cameraman captured the moment when one
a resourceful guy stopped by Billy Gates's tor-
that in the face...
At the end compo played out of competition
work and tried three times to no avail
show unfinished parts of the demo on FT from
Antares. Finally, having collected all the forms for the
losovaniya, the organizers left to submit
vote counts. By the way, we managed to find out
thread approximate number of participants and guests -
150-160 people. Not so much, but
Should we take into account that not everyone came, but
those who arrived were from different parts of our
country, then it becomes really healthy
in.
The votes were being counted, and behind the b/w monitor
someone was busy fiddling around and copying something.
We also wondered what they had there.
on disks and calmly stood in line.
But here, finally and irrevocably, the
whether electricity. But we are not very upset
foxed The counting of votes took a very long time,
somewhere around an hour. Some can't stand it
and left...
But then came the solemn moment to announce
appearance of the winners, presentation of diplomas,
cash prizes and gifts.
4K COMPO
1. GOA VU EXPLODER/MEGACODE/EXTREME
2. DIZZY VU SERZH SOFT
3. NEVERLAND VU SENAT/ETERNITY INDUSTRY
GFX COMPO
1. POLESJE VU ARTHUR BURN/ELSSLAND (*)
2. TRASSA VU ANTON SURANOV (**)
3. ALF 13 VU DEMIURGE ASH/ETERNITY
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Ed.: According to the results published by Vla-
Dimir Bulchukei September 6:
(*) - XTREMLY? TeeRay/Extreme
(**) - PRAY! Evgeniy Golyakov/Spencer
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MUSIC COMPO
1. I MUST WIN A COMPO VUEA-SOFT/ANTARES
2. ZX-SOS VU IGOVAL/ANTIQUE
3. ... VU IMP (***)
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(***) - IMP49 Vladimir Khropov/IMP/Belarus
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DEMO COMPO
1. REFRESH VU MEGACODE
2. FOREVER VU DIGITAL REALITY
3. BLAME VU STARS OF KELADAN AND
SPEED COMPANY
By the way, Exploder, in addition to the diploma and money
received a new prize as a gift from his mother
board KAU-1024, the same one that was shown
NEMO shaft.
Upon completion of the presentation of diplomas, the organi-
congestion announced that they invite everyone to
unofficial second day of FunTop-98. Pro-
he will walk in Izmailovsky Park at 13
hours and everyone will be able to participate in the
Menit sysopnik Moscow ZX-Net. Sami
We weren’t on the second day (it was too long
wait - more than 15 hours), but Maxwell/TNL
wrote that they "at this timefermented water
ku (under the Kremlin wall during the salute
ta!), and then spent the night at the Kazan railway station
le, and then everyone wanted to sleep... And in si-
Sopnik on Sunday everything is sour again
lis..."
We got home without incident :-(
Since there would be a wait for the Moscow-Kovrov bus,
lo long (about 10 hours), then we are on the first
We took a suitable bus to Vladimir.
There, after having a snack and a little nap, the first
We took the train to our native Kovrov.
Now that this short review of our
the trip to FunTop is coming to an end, we are re-
were planning to release a disc with three-color cards
teens (don’t flatter yourself, there will be pictures
not so much - about 20 pieces). Why
exactly 3 colors? So, nevertheless, more
It’s clear what’s there on the screen. Naturally
users do not recognize most faces or
won’t see it at all :-(, but the very spirit of the festival-
Let's hope we get it across to you
completely. The photographs themselves will be supplied
wives with feasible comments.
Finally, I would like to give a few
good advice to future Fun organizers
Tor-99.
Firstly, - you just need to exclude
voting for the works of members of one group.
Imagine the situation: I live in Moscow
(although this is not at all necessary) andI'm coming
at a party with several guys I know
(from 10 to 20 or more ;-) And also if I lead
correspondence with a couple of dozen cities
Dov, from where there are also representatives...
Cool! But this is just a joke with a grain of truth.
Secondly, - exclude any coincidence
between CHK-Intro and demo. This, I think, is
clear. You can make so many of these Intros
anything. The same applies to paintings -
Kam. Stop allowing colorized
scanned graphics and also not allow
those from the pictures that are already in the demo.
Thirdly, - truly controlled
get incoming work! Do not allow
more than 1 work in each nomination from the group
or from one person.
That's all the main comments, not so much
and a lot! In general, we really like the festival itself
I liked it. Thank you very much, organizer
FunTop tori.
I would really like to hope that
next year the Moscow Sinclairists will not
they will let this good initiative die out.
We send a big, big hello to our
new and old friends and in general all those
who was not too lazy to visit the International
Festival of Computer Art FunTop.
And finally, here is a list of participants
Speccy party - FunTop,which kindly
provided by Mitchell from Hard Wave Crew, for
thank him very much.
See you soon at FunTop-99!!!
(C) VEL/PROXIMA
(C) SERGIUS PUZZLER/PROXIMA
The FunTop-98 party members list
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1. Wolf/Rage,
2. Mythos/Rage,
3. Spirit
4. Recorder
5. B0S/LOSW/GE/vP,
6. Wlodek Black,
7. Kano/RP,
8. M!TcHe11/HWC,
9. SerzhSoft,
10. Mr.Z/HWC,
11. SD/HWC,
12. Frunze/SG/Logros,
13. Captain/SG/Logros,
14. ALK/Stars of Keladan,
15. L-Graph/VVG,
16.GPV
17. RCL/VVG,
18. Rom Corp/VVG,19. High Lord/VVG,
20. Mic/VVG,
21. Doctor Мах/Global,
22. Twin/Global,
23. Alex Kerman/Global,
24. Dan!!l/PGC/BDA,
25. Mic/Progress,
26. Rom/Progress,
27. Fux/Progress,
28. KLR/Progress,
29. Sauron/DR,
30. OZ/DR,
31. ARTY/DR,
32. Flying/DR,
33. John/VB,
34. Calev/Ris,
35. Alex(R),
36. ZX-Shadow,
37. Antares,
38. Sister,
39. Chazm/InfoSoft/CPU,
40. Elf/Auryn/CPU,
41. Shaitan/Surdakar/CPU,
42. Dr.Dash/DGN,
43. NSS/DGN,
44. Dude/DGN,
45. Balbes (Last Zahary),
46. Sand and his friend from Mayhem,
47. Peters Software,
48. Welcome,
49. OOPS group,
50. Siv Blader/Excess,51. Hacker Gri/Excess,
52. Lion/Excess,
53. Magic/Magic Soft/Extreme,
54. Мас Buster/Magic Soft/Extreme,
55. ХРЕН/Magic Soft/Extreme,
56. E.I.,
57. Gladiator,
58. Die Crups,
59. M.M.A./Speed Со./Extreme,
60. Exploder(VAV)/Megacode/Extreme,
61. Ilya Komandin/ZX-Maniaks,
62. Vel/PXM,
63. Uncle Sam/PXM,
64. Sergius Puzzler/PXM,
65. Art Soft...
and many others...
(С) MITCHELL/HWC
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